Re: How to build a source tarball that includes symbolic links?
I see. So that's when the symbolic links point to something that's
actually available as a debian package. However, in my case I
simplified things a little bit: I actually also have symbolic links to
a common, in-house library that's not available as a debian package.
Again, I totally agree that it should; but until then, is there a way
I can work this out?
PS.
Now that I think of it, our copy of CppUTest includes fixes to bugs
that our team has identified and we therefore couldn't use the
official debian package either.
Thanks in advance,
David
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> Thanks, I see what you are doing now.
>
> Looks like you instead should build-dep on libcpputest-dev and use
> #include <CppUTest/Utest.h> and -llibCppUTest to build against it.
> Weird that it only provides static libraries though :/
>
> Tarballs should be built by the upstream build system (`make
> distcheck` with automake), not by the Debian tools.
>
> Here is how it usually works, at least for the upstream projects I am
> involved in.
>
> Upstream development happens in a git repo and I build against the
> libraries installed on my Debian system. Others build against the same
> libraries packaged for other distros.
>
> When it is time to release, I create a git tag, run `make distcheck`
> (from automake) to create a tarball and upload that to the upstream
> website and announce the release in the appropriate places.
>
> Then I run uupdate (or git-import-orig or git pull + pristine-tar or
> whatever) to update my Debian tree to the new tarball.
>
> Then I build the source/binary packages, check them and upload to
> Debian once they are ready.
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
>
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